Tesla-Turbine-Small

Tesla-Turbine-Small

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Tesla turbine, small

Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor and engineer who discovered and patented the rotating magnetic field, the basis of most alternating-current machinery. He also developed the three-phase system of electric power transmission. He immigrated to the United States in 1884 and sold the patent rights to his system of alternating-current dynamos, transformers, and motors to George Westinghouse.

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1912
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The World's Work, Walter Hines Page, Arthur Wilson Page, Published 1912 Doubleday, Page & Company
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